Chapter Five: Who Is Living Her Life

They won't like it.” “And you?” “Love of acting. And Wen Cheng.” Wen closed her phone. “A memory isn't a person.” “You use memory every morning to decide you're yesterday's person. Why doesn't ours count?” Silence filled the attic. Jianwei did not intervene. She was beginning to understand that Xiaoman was not lost property waiting to be returned. Tang brought Obsidian's identification protocol. The company called doubles “deviation images” and scored them by public acceptance. The highest scorer inherited the original's access, accounts, and relationships. After seventy-two hours of public belief, the original gradually lost her voice, face, and ability to be recognized. “Long Hair has eighty-seven points,” Tang said. “You have sixty-two.”